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Movies that feel like Hera Pheri (2000)

If you loved Hera Pheri, the closest films we have are Happy New Year (2014), I Went Down (1997) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). All three share Hera Pheri's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and FlixFling and others, checked against today's data.

Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Priyadarshanwittyplayfulgritty

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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 48%5crime · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%6.7action · comedy · crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into action than Hera Pheri does

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · crime

Both lean on wit more than on crime

The difference: 49 years apart, and the 1950s show

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · dir. Burt Kennedy
🍅 80%7.4comedy · western

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

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Key of Life
2012 · dir. Kenji Uchida
7.3comedy · crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

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Zero Effect
1998 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 66%6.9mystery · crime · comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

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Twin Dragons
1992 · dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
🍅 43%6.4action · comedy · crime

Playful crime, and it commits to that

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Extreme Job
2019 · dir. Lee Byeong-heon
🍅 83%7.1action · comedy · crime

A streak of grit through both

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

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Bottle Rocket
1996 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 86%6.9comedy · crime · drama

The same comedy instincts

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
6.7western · comedy · adventure

Comedy of the same temperament

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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The Green Butchers
2003 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 63%7.2comedy

Comedy approached the same way

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as Hera Pheri

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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🍅 72%7comedy · crime

Crime in the same key

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

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